Waterboarding
Accupuncture with rusty nails
Electroshock therapy
Set on fire

there's probably more, but I'm sure my point has been gotten. I simply can not understand how nobody involved in the creation of that travesty, never bothered to say "hey guys...look...I signed on because I really loved the show...and frankly, we're fucking it full in the ass at this point."

Horrible acting...worse casting...and what the fuck is wrong with everybody pronouncing things all fucked up? Those three things together made every line painful to hear. And that's just the problems with casting...

The action scenes were not horrible, but they weren't particularly good either. They take the sorts of liberties with the story that should never be allowed...ever...I just...can not figure out how the hell nobody blew the whistle on this shit! Has M. Night become somehow big enough of a name that he could get away with fucking this up without anyone being able to contest it? I wish I wasn't a fan of his previous movies, because now I want to shoot him in the face. This is at least as bad as the worst comic book to movie translation I've ever seen...and probably worse actually.

What's worse...is that there have been rumors that there is another movie coming. I can't figure out how this first one could have possibly done well enough to warrant such an act...

Who gave this fuck tard the green light to begin with?

GR...ok...I'm done....I am just so fucking pissed this has happened...
if I was that douche bags kids, I'd fucking disown him...then stab him in his sleep.

Honestly this has been something I've thought about a few times, but it wasn't until I made the comment on a blog by Delmasca that I figured...what the hell, why not just make a blog about it?

I know not what percentage of people on this site my like, hate, love, or generally have no particular opinion about anime in general, nor does that wholly matter. For anyone who has at least watched an anime fully, regardless of what group you may belong to, I wonder...how did you feel about the opening?

See, I'm in the third category. I've loved anime since one of my aunts started sending recorded video tapes with the stuff over from Japan for my family to enjoy when I was still quite young. Some people still think it odd, but to me it's just another form of entertainment/escapism no different than music, books, video games, or live television and movies. But I think part of what makes it so special to me, is that it seems to combine a multitude of aspects to be something quite original. They can have great musical scores that make your body tremble, while taking you on a deep and enthralling journey like a fine novel, in the most fantastical settings with beautiful visuals as you might find in any well developed video game, and keeping you interested and related to the humanity and acting capabilities as you might be with a decent film. It's similar to how I've felt about comics growing up. They combine a fantastic visual medium with the storytelling power of a novelist. I'm kind of rambling, I know this, and it's due in no small part by the fact that I can never properly express the how or why I enjoy certain things, but this is as close as I'm going to get.

Still, time to move on. This post is about a theory of mine. I've seen a fair share of anime. The theory I've come to is that for each individual who has actually enjoyed some anime, I wonder if you can remember the opening themes of many of them now. See, while I've come to understand that a good anime show, can have a crappy opening theme, and that have no bearing at all on the quality of the show itself...I have found that when I've come across an anime with a memorable and very likeable (not all tingles quality mind you, but enjoyable) opening, the anime has ended up similarly enjoyable.

This is not to say obviously that the anime opening that I've liked will come to mean the same thing as another. Every individual has individual tastes...however with nothing else to go on, this is where it stands.

I am captivated by the Opening of Elfen Lied, with an absolutely beautiful, melancholy sounding operatic score (in stark contrast to its rather upbeat j-pop ending). I'm no good at describing music, as I was just never very gifted in that way, but regardless, the opening gave me chills, and I came to enjoy the course of the anime it opened the door to very much

Noein's beginning contrasted with Elfen Lied in that it had a much quicker pace, but only after a rather haunting and slower build up. Regardless of what someone much brighter than myself might describe it as, or what genre of music they might most liken it to, it gripped me, and I never once skipped the opening just to get to the show I ended up liking very much as well.

It would be far too lengthy and repetitive to go through trying to explain every opening, though I would suggest that if you're remotely interested in anime, perhaps looking into some of them, if you have similar feelings of any in the list I'm about to provide of anime that I'm fond of, with openings to match.

Cowboy Bebop (anything with Yoko Kanno's name attached to it, seems to be gold. she is a musical master, and her arrangements have always left me smiling)
Last Exile
Serial Experiments Lain
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Baccano!
Berserk
Death Note
Burst Angel
Heat Guy J
Iria Zeiram: The Animation
Samurai Champloo
Jyu-Oh-Sei
Mushishi
Shigurui: Death Frenzy
Escaflowne
Mezzo DSA
Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne
Paranoia Agent
Gun X Sword
Eden of the East
Witchblade (Yes, the anime)
X (the series, which gave much greater depth to the characters, rather than the movie which made the dragons of both sides non-essential canon fodder worth little more than decent action sequences)
Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040

I like them all, as different as some openings may be from one another, that is just a reflection of my tastes of music. How I like music is a feeling, not an idea.

So far this theory has remained solid for me (to my memory) but it's obviously just a personal one. Any personal contradictions, or agreeances?